You're a terrible cook, Daniel. " "I know," he replied, "But it's the effort that counts. " "I hope that's not the slogan for your dental practice.
My reputation is a media creation.
Being born into the Royal Family is like being born into a mental asylum. Marrying into it is not something to be taken lightly.
If you really want the truth of anything, don't use Wikipedia.
You never know how things will work out. After all the bad reasons in the world, some good came out.
Over the years, during television interviews, whenever the host or the reviewer or whoever gets cynical and nasty with me, I will behave accordingly. I will defend myself.
I wanted to wear the most impenetrable suit of armour ever known to mankind. 'Hello, Mr. Rotten. . . ' You can't say anything about me. You can't put me down in any way shape or form - I'm rotten to the core. . . you know, what's left for you? Pleasantries? I suppose the worst insult you could sling my way is 'Oh, he's really nice, him. '
I never sue journalists. I employ journalists. I employ too many of them. I don't sue journalists.
What's strange is, the people who want to be in the position are never asked to be in the position. Like, if you don't want to do something, then people really want you to do it. And the more you say, "No, really, I'm sorry, it's really not for me," the more they want to convince you that it is, in fact, for you, and that you'd be absolutely perfect.
We don't just respond to things as we see them, or feel them, or hear them. Rather, our response is conditioned on our beliefs, about what they really are, what they came from, what they're made of, what their hidden nature is.
People only speak to get something. If I say, Let me tell you a few things about myself, already your defenses go up; you go, Look, I wonder what he wants from me, because no one ever speaks except to obtain an objective. That's the only reason anyone ever opens their mouth, onstage or offstage. They may use a language that seems revealing, but if so, it's just coincidence, because what they're trying to do is accomplish an objective.